Let's explore the rich culture, beautiful scenic view, delicious and colorful gourmet,high infrastructure, high life-style, tourist spot, people and educational activities of Korea from my window called the "MYSTIC KOREA".

Sunday, August 26, 2012

3rd Culture Communication Forum will held on Sept. 4

The Corea Image Communication Institute (CICI) is hosting the third
Culture Communication Forum from Sept. 4 to 6 in a bid to raise
awareness of Korean culture.

“This forum will give opinion leaders around the world an opportunity to
experience Korean culture and to share their own. We’re hoping this
will contribute to elevating Korea’s brand image across the world,” Choi
Jung-wha, the CICI president, told The Korea Times.

Fifteen opinion leaders from 14 countries have been invited to the
three-day session, which is comprised of small-scale
getting-to-know-Korea programs and a conference “Communicating through
culture: The key to opening hearts and minds.”

Participants include Zhang Jun from the Chinese Kunqu opera, and Hermann
Parzinger, president of Germany’s Prussian Cultural Heritage
Foundation.

Zhang is regarded as China’s most prominent traditional opera performer.
He is actively involving in promoting Kunqu. Last year, he was honored
as the UNESCO Artist for Peace. Chinese actress Gong Li and the China
Disabled People’s Performing Art Troupe are the only previous recipients
from China.

Parzinger is a leading archaeologist, who excavated a 2,500-year old
mummy in Mongolia. Between 2003 and 2008, he represented the German
Archaeological Institute, and is now the president of the Prussian
Cultural Heritage Foundation.

The guests are expected to experience a wide range of Korean culture.

Choe Kwang-shik, minister of culture, sports and tourism, will invite
guests to Deoksu Palace in Seoul for a performance of Gugak, traditional
Korean music. Choe will be a narrator.

The participants will watch “Sugungga,” a traditional pansori opera
directed by German director Achim Freyes. They’ll also see artifacts
from the Korea Furniture Museum, the National Museum of Korea and the
Kokdu Museum.

At the conference on Sept. 6, Dominique Wolton, research director at the
French National Center for Scientific Research, will give a speech on
cultural globalization and the role of Korea, which will be followed by
Kim Ran-do, a professor at Seoul National University, who will discuss
the communication gap between generations. The CICI will present a
survey result on influential Korean cultural commodities, as well. The
forum will close with a gala dinner with 300 guests.